Rhymes with DIME

dime

noun\ˈdīm\

Definition of DIME for Kids

: a United States coin worth ten cents

Word History of DIME

In earlier English, our name for a coin worth a tenth of a dollar meant simply “a tenth part” of something. This word was borrowed from medieval French dime or disme, with the same meaning. Dime, in turn, descends from Latin decima, a form of decimus, meaning “tenth.”